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It's Now Completely Impossible To Sell A Laptop On Ebay

The cool thing about eBay's support system is it will always answer your question; unfortunately, that answer will always be a form letter on how to reset your password, as Timothy discovered when he tried to figure out how to sell his laptop to someone who wasn't a Nigerian scammer. Timothy has learned the awful truth behind today's eBay—something many readers here already know—which is that it's become virtually impossible to sell any sort of medium-to-high end electronics there anymore. More »

1:34 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Chris Walters
196,416 views, 215 comments

Latest by metalgear08: I tried selling a fat PSP on there, with a bunch of games and everything. In the last 10 minutes, I got a bid of $400, about $250 more than I planned. Turned out to be a scammer. Luckily, my more »